Trump has threatened to "nationalize" elections.
This is exactly the sort of bullshit that outlets like the Times or CNN are just completely unequal to covering in a normal way. "Nationalizing" the elections is blatantly, clearly unconstitutional. I know Bannon has been pushing that, too, but that doesn't make it more legal. There is functionally no way that I can see where he could even begin the process of pulling this off. He will not get a bill through Congress, for instance.
Yes, there are legitimate concerns about Trump and Bannon and Miller using their Brownshirts in ICE to intimidate people at polling stations. I worry about states like Georgia that have a massive, concentrated city of Democratic votes and what Trump might try to do to deter voting. Generally speaking, Georgia Republicans have been pretty solid on election integrity, but Florida? Texas?
We are sitting here nine months from what should be a Democratic wave that delivers at least the House, but possibly the Senate. That election remains the single most important event in preserving American Constitutional government, and Trump is threatening that.
The question for "The Resistance" is how much energy to put into fighting something that might be the functional equivalent of his threats to make Canada the 51st state or, yes, annexing Greenland,
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